Background
Marti was born in Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland and from the age of two, was raised in England.
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At the 1992 Games, she finished ninth in the final.
Career
She represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996. Marti remains (as of 2015) the last British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final. She set her outdoor personal best of 1.94 metres, on 9 June 1996 at a meet in Tallinn.
On 23 February 1997 in Birmingham, she cleared 1.95 metres to set a British indoor record.
The record was broken on 8 February 2014, having stood for almost 17 years. This still stands as a United Kingdom age 15 best.
The following year she improved to 1.89 m and was unlucky not to earn selection for the 1984 Olympic Games. Her 1.89 m stood as a United Kingdom Under 17 record for 29 years until Morgan Lake cleared 1.90 m in 2013.
Marti"s career was then slowed by the debilitating illness Master of Engineering. She withdrew from the 1985 World Indoor Games.
In 1986, she finished ninth in the final of the World Junior Championships. From 1985 – 1990, her best result was 1.86 m. Marti returned to top form in 1991, when she improved her 6 1⁄2-year-old PB to 1.94 during the indoor season, to equal Diana Davies"s United Kingdom indoor record.
She went on to clear 1.91 m to finish a fine fifth in the final at the World Indoor Championships in Seville.
At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, she failed to reach the final, clearing 1.86 m in the qualifying round. She remains the last British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final.
Shortly after the Games, she improved her outdoor best to 1.93 m. Marti would continue as the United Kingdom"s most consistent jumper for several years, although she was forced to withdraw from the 1993 World Championships due to injury.
94 m. She cleared this height in both Tallinn in June, then again in Birmingham in July, at the British Olympic Trials.
At the Atlanta Olympics, she failed to reach the final with a best of 1.85 m, for 19th overall in qualification. Marti reached her peak indoors in 1997, by clearing 1.95 m at the Birmingham indoor Grand Prix, to add one centimetre to the United Kingdom indoor record that she held jointly with Diana Davies and Jo Jennings. This height was also equal to the United Kingdom outdoor record.
The record stood for 17 years, until Katarina Johnson-Thompson cleared 1.96 m on 8 February 2014.
Also that year she reached the World Indoor Championship final in Paris and competed at the World Championships in Athens. 4 times AAAs National Champion 1991,93,96,97 ( 2nd in 1994,2002 ).
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Membership
She was a member of Bromley Ladies Athletics Club.
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